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... sound which being matched with another of like sound , do make a [ concord . ] And the whole cadence is contained sometime in one sillable , sometime in two , or in three at the most : for aboue the antepenultima there reacheth no ...
... sound which being matched with another of like sound , do make a [ concord . ] And the whole cadence is contained sometime in one sillable , sometime in two , or in three at the most : for aboue the antepenultima there reacheth no ...
Page 69
... sound in Milton's day than they are given in our own . Elision of vowels of more definite sound is only infrequently indicated because Milton realized , as Saintsbury could not , that they need not lose all pronuncial value . Though ...
... sound in Milton's day than they are given in our own . Elision of vowels of more definite sound is only infrequently indicated because Milton realized , as Saintsbury could not , that they need not lose all pronuncial value . Though ...
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... sound ǝ , combines with the short vowel so closely that it either forms a ' tail - glide ' to it or completely submerges its sound in its own , and then joins intimately to the succeeding vowel or aspir- ate . The antecedent vowel need ...
... sound ǝ , combines with the short vowel so closely that it either forms a ' tail - glide ' to it or completely submerges its sound in its own , and then joins intimately to the succeeding vowel or aspir- ate . The antecedent vowel need ...
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accentual verse apostrophe appear blank verse Book break Bridges Bysshe cadence caesura catalectic choruses classical completely Comus consonant Diekhoff dissyllabic dissyllable edition elided elision emendation ends of lines English enjambement examples fifth foot final elision final extrametrical syllables fourth H. C. WYLD Heav'n iamb iambic pentameters indicate instances L'Allegro later Latin licence long stress lyrical Manuscript medial metre metrical syllable midverse extrametrical Milton's blank verse Milton's intention Milton's prosody Milton's verse Miltonic blank monosyllabic monosyllable number of syllables numbers of lines occur once P.L. Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd pause percentage poem poet poetry principle pronunciation punctuation Puttenham quantity reader Recession of stress rhyme rhythm rhythmical rule Saintsbury Samson Agonistes scansion semivowel sense sequent vowel short sonnet sound spelling spelt stanza stress position strong accent SUPERNUMERARY SYLLABLES syllabic verse synaloepha thir thou total numbers trochees VIII vpon words θα